Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

E-Collecting for Switzerland

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Petitions

Securing Digital Democracy from University of Michigan. In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and future potential — of electronic voting and Internet voting. We'll take a look at the past, present, ...

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Democracy Defenders for informal networking events for democracy defenders and citizens caring about their freedoms and rights.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Crowdsourcing
• Find a job or hire someone
• Civic tech catalogs

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• Consul
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Janaagraha’s mission is to transform quality of life in India’s cities and towns.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

crypto governance

• Blockchain

Datashades.info is a comprehensive search hub and discovery tool for the global CKAN community, designed to enhance the accessibility and usability of open data.

Racjonalny dyskurs publiczny jest możliwy

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Deepfake Sandbox is an interactive demo that allows you to create a deepfake of yourself in mere seconds. After the photo is generated, we examine the societal implications of deepfakes and other AI technology.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Deepfakes

Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

Confronting digital threats to Democracies.

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation

Freedom Forum is a non-governmental organization, working for institutionalization of democracy, protection and promotion of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression and right to information in Nepal.

• free speech
• Global South Alliance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism
• Digital rights

This pioneering project systematically documents and organizes over 5,000 resources from civil society organizations in the Global South dedicated to advancing digital rights. 

• Global South Alliance

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital rights
• Ethical hackers

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Digital rights

Technologien für die Zukunft von Staat und Verwaltung

• Academia
• Hubs
• Academic programs

The recently established Cambridge Political Psychology Lab attempts to apply insights from psychology to understand real world political decision making.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Trabajamos para potenciar los derechos de las mujeres en toda su diversidad.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The GYPI is the first global tool that tracks and compares youth political participation in over 130 countries, measuring indicators like electoral inclusion, civic engagement, youth representation in parliaments, and more.

• youth

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

This is EPD's weekly newsletter providing updates on the latest democracy news, research, events and job offers.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

The Trust for Civic Life invests in local efforts that help people connect and create their community’s future together, ultimately reshaping civic life and building a stronger democracy.

• rural

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Innovatiebureau voor digitale democratie

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

CongressionalRAG democratizes access to legislative information by connecting citizens with bills, laws, and executive orders through an intuitive conversational interface.

• Claude

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Tenant Watch is a mobile-first platform that empowers renters to report unsafe housing conditions and enables cities to monitor violations, enforce codes, and improve housing equity through data-driven oversight.

• housing

The CultureLabs platform aims to systematise and spread knowledge about participatory projects in the field of cultural heritage and beyond. Through its functionalities and the variety of content it provides, it aspires to become a single point of reference for those who wish to organize participatory projects by taking advantage of digital technologies through a human rights lens. Among others, it addresses refugees in Europe through its various initiatives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs
• Democratic Innovations

Digital Democracy’s mission is to work in solidarity with frontline and indigenous communities to use technology to defend their environmental and human rights. We partner with environmental defenders to co-design and co-develop tools they can use to defend critical ecosystems and Indigenous cultures. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve transformative change and works toward a world where all people can participate in decisions that govern their lives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Hardware

Looking to support public drinking water infrastructure and health equity at scale? Help accelerate the removal of 9.2 million lead service lines nationwide and explore how your brand can be part of a trusted, nationally visible civic tech initiative. See how your organization can make a measurable public health impact through transparent sponsorship opportunities.

Each year, we track developments across the political technology space, providing a window into how our ecosystem is evolving—and what it means for Democratic campaigns and progressive infrastructure. This year’s report focuses on the turbulent 2024 election cycle and the hard lessons it left in its wake.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A project of the Pro-Democracy Campaign, we aim to highlight commentary, research, and examples of strong organizing, better voter engagement practices, and strategies to make democracy work for all in America.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Newsletters
• The craft of organizing

Thai organization campaigning for democratic principles

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Citizen Engagement

Requiring open digitalisation and publication of planning data in the UK

• local

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Urban planning

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

An Essay Series Part of the Democratic Legitimacy for AI Initiative

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact
• Fieldwide resources

"Consult was generally good at identifying the themes in a given consultation response."

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Human-centred principles for the design and implementation of deliberative technologies

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

Na GNova somos pessoas apaixonadas por impulsionar a inovação no setor público, resolvendo problemas de forma criativa.

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Specific digital participation instances

Inventar, ativar e participar de redes cujo foco é promover acordos de convivência  e modelos de colaboração para a transformação social, contribuindo de forma criativa e inovadora para a construção de um mundo comum entre diferentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits